"Not good!"
The thought had only just surfaced in the middle-aged cultivator's mind when the space behind him suddenly blurred, yet no figure materialized there.
A streak of black light suddenly flashed, stabbing viciously from behind the middle-aged cultivator at an angle toward his lower back!
After being ambushed and wounded, the middle-aged cultivator had deliberately withdrawn his Divine Sense to draw out the enemy, afraid of alerting them.
Now that he had just released it and killed that female cultivator with another strike, a tiny flaw had appeared in his state of mind.
When he sensed that something was wrong, the spatial fluctuation behind him came too suddenly. His reaction was still a fraction too slow, and he had already lost the initiative.
By then, it was too late for him to dodge. Still, in that instant of lightning and flint, he hastily gathered his spiritual power and swept a hand behind him.
Bang!
A ball of light suddenly expanded from small to large, bursting forth as the two clashed!
Even though the middle-aged cultivator had been poisoned beforehand, his hasty defense was still enough to block an ordinary Void Refinement cultivator's attack.
For him at that moment, that was actually enough. He knew the strength of everyone within the formation like the back of his hand.
Yet after just one collision, the middle-aged cultivator immediately sensed something was amiss. With that sweep of his hand, he had failed to knock aside the attack.
That black light, without any flourish at all, nailed itself directly into his hand!
The spiritual power wrapped around the middle-aged cultivator's palm was forcibly scattered by an overwhelmingly powerful force.
The middle-aged cultivator was greatly alarmed. The person behind him seemed to be a mid-stage Void Refinement powerhouse, but how had he failed to